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The Badgers' run of Holiday Face-Off championships ended when defending NCAA champion Western Michigan held off their third-period chances.

Wisconsin will have a third change to the coaching staff this winter as a coach who's been with Luke Fickell from Day 1 in Madison is leaving.

Giannis Antetokounmpo delivered 24 points and seven assists in his second game back from injury to help Milwaukee close out the Hornets in Charlotte.

Wisconsin women's basketball suffered its worst loss this season on the road against Maryland in its second Big Ten game.

Karen Johannsen and her siblings, Gary and Lyn, had run Johannsen’s Greenhouses, the garden store started by their father in 1960, but closed it in 2013.

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The 44-year-old woman was arrested on multiple charges following a Far East Side crash.

An outside investigation of Candace Terrell and Annabel Torres found they likely violated some health and safety policies, but couldn’t substantiate more than half of all the accusations.

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Dryer fire stopped by sprinkler system

Madison has no shortage of food and restaurant news.

The transfer on Monday made reality of what was expected after an injury derailed his one season in Madison.

The gale force winds could match or exceed the level that sunk the ⁠Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975.

The Badgers and Western Michigan will play the first game between teams ranked in the top 10 in the tournament's five-year history.

All five of the victims died of gunshot wounds in shootings on the North, Far East and South East Sides.

James Barnes-Morris, 26, had been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Brooke Strattan, whose body was found in a pond just off Monroe Street in Madison.

Heavy rains on Sunday gave way Monday to falling temperatures, strong winds and snow

Fire crews were sent to an alarm at the building in the 300 block of West Dayton Street at 11:55 p.m., the Madison Fire Department reported.